The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-29

policy on resolution for a holiday adj
| journment. He assumed that the
resolution would prevail. Such a re-
cess was usual and he did not know
any exception to it. He could not un-
on a motion like that, go into discus
sion as to the Presidents
policy, when they would have
all next year for it, but there
was something which the country
ought to know in connection with the
statement made by the senator from
Kansas. The senator had not told the
country that the policy of the republic
can party, by imposing and maintain
ing unnecessarily high taxation,
had produced the treasury surplus,
and that that same party was deter
mined to hold it there or to waste it in
such schemes as the republican party
might desire. The senator had not
told the country that the republican
party had SO adjusted the debts of the
United States that they could
thus brought by high taxation
into the treasury, unless such
premiums were paid to the bondholders
as they might demand. The policy of
the republican party had postponed
the payment of 500. coo 600 of the debt
till 1891, and of 1874 ,O00, 900 till 1907.
The President had paid every dollar
of the 8 per cent bonds that were pay
able without paying the premium
which bondholders might see fit to ask.
The democratic party, headed by the
President, was endeavOring to reduce
taxes SO that 80 large a surplus
should not come into the treasury.
All that the President had said
was that it was not a proper
thing for him or the secretary of the
treasury to do to pay $3.50 or $50 for
every 500 of the public debt, and
that it was the duty of congress to re-
to point that there would not be
surplus. He thought that the course
of the President and of the Demo-
cratic party would be fully vindicated,
while it would be very hard for the
gentlemen on the other side to explain
why they had kept up taxation to
the extent which they had done.
Dolph argued that If proper appro-
| priatiOnS we're made for river and har-
bors, for public buildings. for coast
line Notifications, for dependent PEN
sioners, for the encouragement of
American commerce, and for the
Nicaraguan canal. there would be
no surplus in the treasury, and he
thought that such a policy was pre-
ferred to reduction of the tariff. If
the senators would but take their eyes
from the increasing surplus in the
| treasury, and cease to bemoan the
prosperity of the country, and to make
the people dissatisfied with the burden
of taxation which they did
not feel, and would devote
their energies to the development of
the couutry's resources Including
manufactures, ships, farms, mines and
forests) they would be wiser than they
were.
| Vest said in reference to what he
called Dolph's sOlicitude for building
the American marine, that there was a
bill pending introduced by Senator
Cameron, in behalf of the Red Star line
of steamers from Philadelphia,
la line owned entirely by
American citizens giving the
privilege of sailing sixteen steamers
Of that line under the American flag in
order to carry it to foreign ports. and
he undertook to say that not one re-
publican senator would record his vote
in favor of that bill. The senator from
Oregon, with all his solicitude for the
American merchant marine, would not
vote for it, and why? Because repub-
lican senators did not propose to touch
the infamous navigation laws, or make
a break in the solid comfort which
protected industries of the country
by tariff legislation. They feared lest
crevasse might be created in that
long line of protected industries which
might result in deluge.
In response to Plumb's criticism OF
the President for vetoing the river and
harbor bill he reminded that senator
that the most virulent attacks upon
that bill had come from himself
/ II hal ho HI Iry
sections and in the aggregate, had ridi-
culed it, denounced it and voted against
it. The Executive had only acted in
the line of the senator's arguments
The President had, in his annual mes.
sage, defined and sharply ds6ned, the
issue between the two treat par
ties, and he (Vestl endorsed that mes
sage from beginning to end. He was
prepared to go into the canvass upon
it, and whatever the result might be-
he declared now publicly that il
the President had done nothing
less than write that message
he had proven himself to bt
an honest, brave, patriotic man, an6
worthy of the leadership of any party
that ever existed in the history of the
country. Plumb said that notwith
standing the alarm which the Presi
dent had spoken of in his message, thu
democratic house of representative!
was not even yet organized in its com
mittees, and that the only response
which the house had made to that CRY
! of alarm was the passage of bill tt
; pay a month 8 extra compensation to ;
lot of its own employees whom
! it had discharged in order to give theil
offices to another lot.
, Allison, chairman of the committe;
on appropriations, said that the com
] mittee had reported the resolution be
cause he believed the general senti
ment to be in favor of a holiday ad
} journment. The house had passed thu
} resolution. The senate could not pro
mote the public interests by rem aiming
| in session, while the house was in it
) present unorganized condition. There
{ were but three ways for the getting
| way presented by the senator from
3 Kansas, and a very good way it was
Another was to increase the appropri
/ atiOnS, and the third was to modify
? the tax laws. Revenue measures haC
! to originate in the house of representa-
| tives, and from the beginning of 1873!
J till now no revenue measure had come
: from the house, and none would come
, certainly before the 4th of January
: Therefore he did not see that the pub
{ lie interests could be advanced or pro
: NOTED by refusing the house the ad
{ journment which it asked.
: Plumb said that the house could no
adjourn without the concurrence of thu
t senate, and would therefore go t.
8 work if the resolution was rejected
T The house posed as the friend of tn,
: people and foe of monopoly. 1t needed
q however. the force of good example.
t also needed the focus of public opin
!. ion.
Butler expressed contempt for tn
: disgusting spectacle which the senati
= was presenting for the affectation ant
hypocrisy exhibited to-day. There wa
: not senator who did not know all tina
7 | was said about the senate remainin,
y in session was absolute bosh ant
!. hypocrisy. It was the idlest, flimsiest
shallowest hypocrisy he had ever wit
messed.
Plumb resented this position of
. public censor. assumed bV the senate